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LEG COVERING GARMENT Original Filed July 6, 1926 I NVENTUR Jm Fink;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JACOB FINK, DECEASED, LATE ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, BY ROSE J. FINK, ADMINIS- TRATBIX, 01 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA; SAID JACOB FINK ASSIGNOR TO SAID ROSE J.

FIN K LEG-COVERING GARMENT Original No. 1,705,008, dated March 12, 1929, Serial No. 120,046, filed July 6, 1926. Application for reissue filed October 28,

This invention relates to leg covering garments or bloomers and has for its object the provision of a garment of this class, which is unusuall durable and adapted to permit unrestricte movement of the wearer.

More particularly, it is the object to form a leg covering garment from a plurality of pieces of fabric of novel form and so joined at the crotch as tominimize the number of foldsof material and at the same time afford a maximum of strength at this point and ample fulness to permit free movement and roper conforming of the garment to the ody of the wearer.

With these objects in view, the invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved garment, showing the front thereof and the arrangement of seams at the crotch; Fig. 2 is a com osite view or 'tailors attern, illustrating t e relative l ie several pieces from which the garment is formed; Fig. 3 shows the several pieces developed upon a plain surface; Fig. 4 is a central, vertical section of the garment and Fig. 5 is a plan view showing the arrangement of seams at thecrotch. I

As best shown in Fig. 3, the garment is formed from two similar front pieces 6, two similar .back pieces 7 and a central for seat piece 8. The front pieces 6 are joined together along their side edges 9 to form a front seam 10, while the opposite side edges 11 of the pieces 6 are joined to the edges 12 of the pieces 7 to form side" seams 13 in the'finished garment. At the back of the garment, there is no central seam the seat piece 8 being joined along its side e ges 8 to edges '14 of the pieces 7 to form two back seams 15, which extend from points on the waist line adjacent to the hips'of the garment and converge to a pointed end 16 in the crotch; When the several pieces are laid fiat, as before sewing them together, each side edge 8 of the iece 8 is cut upon a curve at least a portion 0 wh1ch diver es relative to the adjacent edge 14, so

that t e pieces 8 and 7 when sewed together, are adapted to conform to the body of the wearer and give ample fulness to the seat of the garment. Inside leg seams 17 are formed 1929. Serial No. 402,975.

by joining edges 18 of the pieces 6 andedges 8 overlaps corners 20, formed on the iec'es 6 so that each back seam 15 alon an e ge 8 meets a seam 17 at a point s ace to one side of the middle ofthe crotc As shown in the pattern of Fig. 2, the waist lines 21 of the garment extend \substantially parallel to' a line 22 passing through the crotch of. the garment' and perpendicular to the vertical center line 23 of the seat piece 8.

By this peculiar form and arrangement of the seat piece 8 an unusually full seatjis provided in the garment, as shown in Fi 4, and the seams 15 are separated one from t e other where they meet the inside leg seams at either side of the center of the arment, so that unusual fulness of materia is provided in the crotch. Thus, free movement of the wearer is permitted without causing undue strains in any part of the garment. Further by this arran ement of seams at the crotch, t e numpared with the common form of garment in which a central back seam meets theinside leg seams and front seam at a' oint, and a much more durable junction 0 material is .provided at the crotch b reason ofthe overatp ing arrangement 0 the pointed end 16 o t eseat anel 8.

Having escribed the invention of said ber o folds of material is minimized, as com- JAcoB FINK what is claimed as new and'desired to be protected by Letters Patent is:

In a leg covering garment, individual leg covering members having inside leg seams meeting in the'crotch, said members being united by a front seam extending from the. waist-line to a central. point in the crotch, each of said members being substantially narrower at the waist-line than at the crotch, and the rear edge of each being substantially longer than the edges meeting at the front seam, and a seat piece interposed between and connecting the rear edges of the leg covering members to give fullness to the seat of the 1 garment, a triangular portion of said seat ministratrix'of the estate of said JACOB FINE,

deceased.

ROSE J. FINK, Adm/inistmtfiw of the Estate ofJacob Fink,

Deceased. 

